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Thursday, 12 January 2012

A little experiment...

I'm not a false nail kind of person, I'm not into the acrylic look and to be honest I don't even know how I let my friend talk me into trying these out. Although they are much thinner than salon acrylics, they are still...plastic!

She uses these glue on nails which you can buy on Ebay in bulk, for an average of 3 to 4 weeks before they start to fall off (not a major concern for me as I change my mani way too often). They come in sets of 12 nails. I filed around them a little but could have done a better job with my pinky finger as the back of the nail didn't fit my cuticle properly.

I decided to polish over them before I glued them on. I used 2 coats of an nameless La Femme Polish. It's a dark mauve-purple polish packed with gold micro-shimmer.

If indeed these glue-ons have such staying power, I suppose they are good for people who like extensions and the acrylic look but don't want to pay £30 for a full salon set. A pack of 300 sets of these on Ebay cost me £3.80.

I'll let you know how I get on with these, I'll post about my progress and verdict soon. In the meantime, I'll be posting manis and swatches I've done previously.

17 comments:

They look nice. I don't think they look overly false either. If you hadn't said they were fake I probably wouldn't have been able to tell unless I was up close to them. I just worry about the damage to my nails from the adhesive when I go to take them off because they can cause your nail beds to weaken.

@ Amanda, @ Lindsey R - thanks. I really like this colour too. My cousin gave it to me, she didn't like the colour and was about to chuck it away! I said , no way!!! I'll have it :-)

@ Melissa - From far they actually look real because they are thin to resemble the natural nail. I hope my nails don't get too damaged. My friend's aren't usually that bad when she removes them. I used a really good adhesive, so we'll see :-)

Hey! :) Thanks for the reply! I never got the email though :( Could you possibly try again? Or just post it as a comment on any of my blog posts, if you don't want the link to go really public I can delete the comment after :) Thanks again!

Hi. Thank you so much. I bought these a long time ago but if I'm not mistaken, this was the seller - http://stores.ebay.co.uk/shop4femmestoreThey are "full false nails" instead of just tips and I bought the short ones as I don't like the very long ones. Hope this helps!

That's so funny, after a long time of searching through ebay I actually ended up buying some from this seller :Dthank you for your quick answer! I thought it'd be good to keep some in case one nail brakes, since I hate filing them all down.

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